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Spring walk
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Considering buying some new photo gear … a bicycle. That would extend my current “radius of photography” from 5-7 km to 25-30km (at least). Now I need to decide if it’s worth the money.
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Sigh. Another expense … not unexpected but still. My offsite Synology ran out of disk space while doing a backup of my onsite Synology. And those disks aren’t as cheap as regular disks. Ahh, well time to start looking at web sites to find new ones.
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It’s amazing, some people always looks good in a photo … and some never does. Nothing new, but it’s so amazing to see the difference.
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Lightroom Classic doesn’t need more AI, it needs syncing that works !!!!!!!
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The time is ticking
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It seems like spring is here
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They are having a chat
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I have a mailbox called “Probably crap” and it makes me happy every time I see it (I usually don’t open it … since it probably contains crap 😋).
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A misty day
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Fascinating, I haven’t used Instagram in 5-6 months and my account is real small and very unimportant. But people still try to break into it 🤷🏼 I wonder why, seems like a waste of time.
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I took about 2500 photos last weekend at one event, and 5-600 today at another event. This wouldn’t be a bad thing if I had some time to edit and publish them … I still haven’t looked at the 1000-1500 photos I took in November.😔
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My theory is that some repair is needed
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That was encouraging, saw a text in German that I understood … kind of. But I wasn’t really sure about certain words, so I used Google Translate to check what it really meant … and my translation was better. It looks like the last 9 months have increased my knowledge of German.
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At work today, I got asked to post a link on my social accounts. “Can’t do, I don’t use any social accounts” was my answer. This made me realize something that I hadn’t thought about before: one of the reasons for me getting off FB, Insta, X … all the posts that try to sell something.
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Lesson learned. About a year ago, I thought that my SmugMug subscription had become too expensive so I cancelled it. Spent a lot of time trying to find a solution that would be cheaper, more sustainable (regarding my long term economy), and make my life easier. Tried a few solutions, looked at even more - but the solution I come up was quite frail and required different parts/tools. End result was that I was uploading less photos, and it felt like too much work every time I needed to share something.
Recently, I learned a few things about what it going to happen the next 12 months and I realized that my current way of handling things wouldn’t work. It’s simply too fragmented and I spent too much time agonizing over how I should do things. And doing them also took too much time … time I rather spend on taking/editing photos and thinking about how I can improve.
So yes, I’m back at SmugMug and I already feel more relaxed. Expensive? Yep! Worth it: Well, I feel calmer and I’ve shared more photos the last few days than the last 9 months, so yep.
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Be careful out there
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Microsoft Teams … what a piece of crap
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I’m not sure if I’m angry, relieved, frustrated or just amazed. I needed to use Teams so I downloaded Teams onto my phone (and felt quite dirty), tried to open the link I was invited to, no access, please login, used an old MS account that I haven’t used in 20 years or so, no access, please use another account, tried work account, no access, tried to create account with the same email address I got the invitation on, doesn’t work to create an account in Teams, tried Safari, please allow third party cookies, hell no, tried Brave, same thing - couldn’t find a way to allow third party cookies, Vivaldi, same thing, Firefox Focus, managed to log in … and got a page that said “use Teams app” 🤦🏻♂️ tries the app again, taps “use other account”, enter mail address of the new account, “this account doesn’t exist” (OK, I just managed to log in in the browser but … OK), taps create a new account, enters the same address and get “this account already exists” 🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️😡😡😡
OK I understand that this probably due to not allowing third party cookies in Safari but this soooo bad. This is 3h of my life that I will not get back.
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Spent most of the day with my grandchildren … which made we wish that I was 30 years younger … which in turn would have resulted in some awkward conversations